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On Thursday, November 3, the Pyme Award 2022 in Navarra was held, an event that took place at the Santander Work Cafe.

Five companies were candidates to obtain this recognition, among which were Oxyhydrogen Technologies, Quesos La Vasco Navarra, Solarfam Engineering, Ulartec Technology for Sustainable Mobility and VDR.

When pulp is removed from cellulose, paper mills produce a substance known as black liquor. Up until now there has been little use for it, and it is often burned to produce electricity. In CENER laboratories, however, it is being recovered in order to extract and processkraftlignin, a polymer that researchers have used to develop an antioxidantfrom a renewable source. The initiative, coordinated by ADItech, acting in turn as the coordinating agent for SINAI, and funded by Navarra’s Regional Government, not only aims to offer a new product to agri-food, industrial, and cosmetic companies, but also represents a potential new line of business for the paper sector.

Around fifty representatives of companies from Navarra have attended a conference organised by Navarra’s Regional Government and ENERCLUSTER.

A researcher from Rioja has been awarded a grant to pursue her post-doctoral studies at Navarrabiomed-IdiSNA.

This talented young researcher is receiving funding as part of the Junior Leader post-doctoral grants programme, which allocated a total of 45 grants in 2021 to outstanding researchers.

The programme pursues two objectives: to support talented individuals from Spain and Portugal, allowing them to remain in their home country and carry out their projects in the best conditions; and to internationalise the research system of Spain and Portugal, attracting promising international researchers.

The public company owned by Navarra’s Regional Government will introduce its services to Cordoba’s Municipal Water Company (EMACSA), “which currently serves some 325,000 people”, starting on 1st February. With this agreement, Tracasa will be working with twelve entities managing the whole water cycle in the national territory.

The goal of the two-year Zero Plastics project, funded by Navarra’s Regional Government, is to develop new packaging solutions that do not contain plastics. The partners of the initiative are the Naitec technology centre and the companies Solidus Solutions, Global Local Solutions, Goikoa, Florette, Palacios, Exkal, and Viscofan.

The firm from Navarra won an international public tender competition, launched by the Inter-American Development Bank and the Government of Honduras through the electricity firm Empresa Nacional de Energía Eléctrica. It will develop two hybrid micro-networks totalling 1 MWp of photovoltaic energy, 2.19 MWh of storage, and 1.950 kVA in backup generators. The facilities, representing an investment of around $8 million (€6.9 million), will benefit more than 10,000 people.

This year, Puente la Reina, a company that produces organic virgin olive oil and snacks, condiments, and olive by-products, will start selling its products in the south of France. And, in 2023, the company will alsolaunch in the United States and Canada, as Manuel Román, a partner of the company, told Navarra Capital. In addition, it plans to increase the number of hectares of olive groves it has in Tierra Estella almost sevenfold and is spearheading the Up4Health project, with ten European partners and a budget of 4 million. The aim: “to recover grape, olive, and nut waste as natural and healthy by-products”.